UKaid-Girls’ Education Challenge
Vacancy: Regional Co-ordinator
Background: CfBT Education Trust is implementing a four year project called Wasichana Wote Wasome (WWW – ‘Let All Girls Learn’).
WWW is a DfID funded project that aims at improving school enrolment, retention, attendance and learning outcomes for 133,500 marginalised girls in Kenya.
The project works in 500 primary schools and the communities they serve in two contexts: Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs) and urban slums in eight counties namely: Kilifi, Kwale, Tana River, Marsabit, Samburu, Turkana, Mombasa and Nairobi.
The project intends to achieve her objectives by driving change in four dimensions: the community, the home, the school and the girl herself.
The project uses a holistic, integrated approach which combines interventions across the four dimensions in order to overcome the complex barriers to girls’ education in these two environments.
CfBT wishes to recruit for the position of a Regional coordinator, Wasichana Wote Wasome project to be based in Turkana County.
Core Responsibilities
The Regional Co-ordinator will be based in the field and will be responsible for coordinating planning and managing implementation of project activities in Turkana County.
The incumbent will be responsible for supervision and implementation of the teacher coaching activities in three sub-counties of Turkana County.
Specific tasks under teacher coaching shall include:
- Supporting and strengthening capacity of instructional coaches and other interventions implemented to address key challenges and issues impeding early grade & appropriate learning attainments;
- Providing advisory services to instructional teacher coaches in lesson planning and teaching, delivery and lesson modelling with emphasis to early grade literacy and numeracy in project schools;
- Reviewing progress on the in-service training to support teachers/instructional coaches to interpret and clarify the syllabus;
- Regularly providing leadership services to instructional coaches;
- Supporting data collection processes, analysing and other related monitoring activities to track project progress and reporting;
- Providing support inputs for development and review of coaching and learning materials for the project and regular and routine checks in schools and recommend ways of making them gender friendly.
The Regional coordinator shall also lead in planning, managing and coordinating other project components in Turkana county to ensure synergy across project components; backstopping role, supporting field officers & coaches with field based operational issues and providing field based reports to the Project Director;
S/he shall liaise and represent the project including with government particularly (MoEST, TSC) and other stakeholders;
Qualifications
- Minimum Bachelor of education degree;
- Experience in the area of Early Primary Education;
- Experience in teacher support and management;
- Experience in coordinating & managing community integrated participatory interventions in the context of education, health & gender mainstreaming;
- Proven experience in teaching Mathematics and language (Kiswahili/English);
- Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills;
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English;
- Experience in implementing behaviour change activities in schools and school community;
- Experience & commitment to working in settings of cultural, ethnic, educational and religious diversity with an aim of improving education outcomes.
Interested and eligible candidates should submit a detailed CV and Cover letter including current remuneration and three referees to cfbt@cfbt-africa.com with the subject line job application and the name of the post applied for.
Applications must be received on or before July 13, 2015.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
The position has a possible interaction with children, youth and disadvantaged communities and hence a background check will be done and a certificate of good conduct will be mandatory for every applicant.